Biology:Lahejia

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Short description: Genus of leaf beetles

Lahejia
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Coleoptera
Infraorder: Cucujiformia
Family: Chrysomelidae
Subfamily: Eumolpinae
Tribe: Bromiini
Genus: Lahejia
Gahan, 1896[1]
Type species
Lahejia cinerascens
Gahan, 1896[1]
Synonyms[2][3]

Pseudomalegia Jacoby, 1897[4]

Lahejia is a genus of leaf beetles in the subfamily Eumolpinae.[5] It is known from Africa and Asia. It is related to Malegia.[3]

Taxonomy

The genus was first created in 1896 by Charles Joseph Gahan for the single species Lahejia cinerascens, which was collected by Lieutenant-Colonel John William Yerbury from Lahij, Yemen (spelled as "Lahej" in the paper).[1] In 2002, Stefano Zoia determined that Pseudomalegia (a genus created by Martin Jacoby in 1897) was a synonym of Lahejia, transferring to the latter genus six more species (while a seventh became a synonym of L. cinerascens).[3] In 2010, two further species were moved to the genus from Microlypesthes and Malegia in the sixth volume of the Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera.[6]

Species

  • Lahejia aenea (Chen, 1940)
  • Lahejia cinerascens Gahan, 1896[1]
  • Lahejia fulvipes (Jacoby, 1898)[7]
  • Lahejia jacobsoni (Sumakov, 1901)
  • Lahejia lefevrei (Jacoby, 1897)[4]
  • Lahejia minuta (Weise, 1919)
  • Lahejia schimperi (Lefèvre, 1891)[8]
  • Lahejia tibialis (Jacoby, 1901)[9]
  • Lahejia turkestanica (Reitter, 1890)[10]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Gahan, C. J. (1896). "On Coleoptera from Aden and Somaliland". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 6 18 (108): 448–461. doi:10.1080/00222939608680485. https://zenodo.org/record/2182171. 
  2. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "Eumolpinae". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 619–643. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA620. }
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Zoia, S. (2002). "A redescription of Lahejia cinerascens Gahan, 1896, with notes on synonymy (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Eumolpinae)". Entomologica Basiliensia 24: 321–325. http://www.chrysomelidae.it/Chrysomelidae/pubblicazioni-pdf-scaricabili/Zoia%202002.pdf. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jacoby, M. (1897). "Further contributions to the knowledge of the phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa, including Madagascar, Part II". Journal of Zoology 65 (3): 527–577. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1897.tb03108.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/69604. 
  5. "Lahejia". http://www.chrysomelidae.it/afr_Eum/genere_Lahejia.html. 
  6. Moseyko, A. G.; Sprecher-Uebersax, E. (2010). "New nomenclatural and taxonomic acts, and comments. Chrysomelidae: Eumolpinae". Catalogue of Palaearctic Coleoptera. Volume 6. Chrysomeloidea. Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books. pp. 80–83. ISBN 978-87-88757-84-2. https://books.google.com/books?id=qt8zDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA80. 
  7. Jacoby, M. (1898). "Additions to the knowledge of the Phytophagous Coleoptera of Africa. Part I". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 212–242. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30952543. 
  8. Lefèvre, E. (1891). "Descriptions d'espèces nouvelles de Clytrides et d'Eumolpides". Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 35: CCXLVIII–CCLXXIX. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12304179. 
  9. Jacoby, M. (1901). "A further contribution to our knowledge of African Phytophagous Coleoptera.". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 49 (3): 209–256. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2311.1901.tb02386.x. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/36456. 
  10. Reitter, E. (1890). "Beschreibungen neuer Coleopteren aus Europa, dem Kaukasus, Russisch-Armenien und Turkestan". Wiener Entomologische Zeitung 9: 189–198. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12112532. 

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